Engineering notes
Short technical notes on offshore structures, engineering automation, asset integrity, and the reasoning behind engineering decisions.
Published notes
Public learning notes on offshore structures, asset integrity, engineering automation, and maritime technology.
Asset integrity
An introductory comparison of Risk-Based Inspection and Remaining-Life Assessment, including their objectives, inputs, outputs, relationship, and roles in asset-integrity decisions.
Offshore Structures
Offshore jackets are not shaped only by appearance or convention. Their battered legs, tubular members, bracing patterns, wide foundations, and tapered geometry reflect load paths, environmental exposure, fabrication constraints, installation requirements, and foundation behaviour.
Maritime Technology
Artificial intelligence can help maritime professionals process data, identify patterns, support inspection, monitor assets, and improve operational decisions. Its value depends on data quality, traceability, system boundaries, human oversight, and a clear understanding of what the model cannot decide.
Upcoming notes
These topics are being developed. Their separation reflects publication state, not importance; dates and reading-time estimates appear when each article is ready.
Automation
How engineering judgment, independent checks, and reviewable evidence can remain visible inside automated workflows.
Asset integrity
Exposure, wetting cycles, protective systems, inspection context, and the careful interpretation of corrosion evidence.
Technical reporting
A framework for connecting modelling assumptions, solver evidence, validation, interpretation, and stated limitations.